“Red
wine could help treat Aids and cancer - ...Scientists from a range of
disciplines assembled to discuss the health benefits at the University Victor
Segalen in Bordeaux...The health benefits of living in France, noted as early as
1890 by an Irish physician, were thought to lie in the local diet, notably red
wine. But alcohol was found to increase the risk of harmful clotting an hour
after consumption. However, Prof Serge Renaud of the University Victor Segalen,
said that this effect was absent in red wine, probably because it contained
polyphenols, substances that had been shown to have remarkable biological
properties, responsible for the colour of grapes and found in their skins and
seeds...” (Roger Highfield, quoted in WND, April 19, 2001)
Comments:
Those struggling so hard to find a justification for DRINKING will not give up.
Even most of the conservative news sites appear to JUMP ON every report that
seems to slightly justify DRINKING. This is no doubt because there are probably
many Christians working for these organizations and they are CONVICTED. Here are
the facts: If you drink pure red GRAPE JUICE moderately you will then get ALL
the healthy benefits of fermented wine WITHOUT the UNHEALTHY physical and
spiritual consequences! Alcohol is a poison that hurts the precious organs of
the body while it makes the precious mind dull and STUPID (Ho.4:11). The Bible
says wine-drinkers have a tendency to take their clothes off (Gen.9:21, 19:32,
Hab.2:15). Godly Jews knew that only daughters of Belial DRINK fermented wine:
1Sa
1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful
spirit: I have DRUNK neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul
before the LORD. 16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:
Certainly
some of these Christians defending wine drinking have seen (hopefully BEFORE
their conversion) worldly girls made giddy and tipsy on only A FEW SIPS of
fermented wine! If they will preach “moderation” why then don’t they also
WARN most young women that “moderation” will certainly make them DRUNK? Yet,
we hear no such warnings. Plus, who defines DRUNK? Moderate drinkers all have
their own ideas about it. And the same amount of alcohol can effect different
people in different ways. Are you
supposed to experiment and risk getting a little drunk to find how much you can
“handle”? Also, how much you can “handle” will often depend on whether
or not you have eaten, whether or not you are tired, etc. It is all VERY
subjective. Therefore, many “moderate” wine drinkers often get up from a
meal with a HEAD RUSH. They do all this, even though the Bible teaches that the
KINGDOM OF GOD will be missed for DRUNKENNESS (1 Cor.6:10). The Bible uses the
word “wine” in a dual sense. It often means simply unfermented grape juice:
Isa
65:8 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, As the new WINE is found in the CLUSTER, and one
saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’
sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Isa
27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A VINEYARD of RED WINE.
If
Jesus made fermented wine, where was the “moderation”? The Bible says He
made it after they were WELL DRUNK! (John 2:10) God’s wise, obedient servants
are not even to LOOK at fermented wine:
Pr
23:31 LOOK NOT thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in
the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Fermented
wine is dangerous in itself. It is also a picture of sin (Eph.5:18, Jer.51:7,
etc.). Messing with a “little” sin almost always leads to BIG sin
(Rom.13:14, Gal.5:8).
The
ancient Jews certainly knew how to preserve juice from fermenting. This has been
documented multiple times in this newsletter. One way was to boil it down to a
thick syrup and then as water as needed. If you want to be healthy, drink some
pure grape juice every so often. If you want to gamble with sin and be a
stumbling block for others, drink a little fermented wine